From: Jason Roelofs <jameskilton@...>
Date: 2009-03-26T03:24:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Parsing xml

Regex is not stateful, thus you can't use it to parse XML. Oh there
are ways to hack yourself around some limitations and get some
results, but you are going to spend a TON of time making very
unreadable Regex that will die at the presense of slightest malformed
XML. Your boss obviously has no idea what he's talking about. If
anything, use REXML because, as another poster said, it's a part of
Ruby and not an external library.

If your boss makes these kind of requests often, you should probably
go looking for another job, IMO

Jason